Kindred Spirits articles from September 2005

Kindred Spirits archives from September 2005

Dear Kindred Spirits.(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... What a tangled, criss-crossed thing life was... In an attempt to sort out the genealogical tangle of the Penhallows and the Darks one needs to read A Tangled Web more than once. Hearing George Campbell speak of his being doubly related to...

Our Kindred Spirits share.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... A grey day with a grey wind. It's a cold and rainy day. I cozy up on the couch and revel in the sheer joy of having nothing to do. There aren't many days like this so I plan to take full advantage. Gathering my checkered blanket around...

Poets corner.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Perhaps Margaret still wrote poems. There's a breeze in the air, The night pasture is still. The summer is over Autumn has christened the hill. The old fence is badly broken The wire is here and there. The...

Chronicles of and old garden.
September 22, 2005... Come into the garden, Maud. --Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Placed in the centre of the garden or at its entrance, a flower urn or container, nicely planted, gives a feeling of welcome. This delightful photograph of LM Montgomery with...

Do you dare peek.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... Do You Dare Peek Shadows big and shadows small, many shadows hide on the wall. If upon them you should peek, sometimes can make your knees feel weak. From the edge of your bed or corner, small shadows look so huge and ...

Under the shadow: there are so many things you want to do in life and never do. But going to PEI was always my dream after the war and suddenly I thought 'Do it' and I never regretted it.
September 22, 2005... Kindred Spirits fondly recall the heart-rendering article Carla wrote for us (winter 2002) of her imprisonment during World War II. Somehow, a teacher had brought a trunkful of LM Montgomery books in Dutch translation into these horrendous...

A pastoral call.(Short Story)
September 22, 2005... Why should I think so, Mrs. Kennedy? said Mr. Douglas gently. Everybody makes mistakes. I am only very sorry for you all. You have suffered: perhaps your son has, too. He loved you--he must miss you bitterly. He doesn't, said Mrs. Kennedy,...

Reflections on Stanley Bridge.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2005... Although I was born in Northview Cottage, on the North Road, much of my youth was spent in Stanley Bridge at my Grandmother's home. Grandmother Kemys Walsh had been widowed in 1922, when her husband, Patrick Walsh, the village harness maker,...

Twirls Among the Trees.(Autumn Pilgrimage)(Poem)
September 22, 2005... A Tangled Web Follow the winds of autumn to the LM Montgomery sites--Macneill Homestead, Green Gables, the LM Montgomery Birthplace and the Anne of Green Gables Museum at Silver Bush, open to the public May to October. Special arrangements...

Around the kitchen table.
September 22, 2005... A great pyramid of pumpkins shone goldenly in Homer Penhallow's yard. A Tangled Web A large golden pumpkin can make a festive soup tureen at Thanksgiving or Hallowe'en. The base or trivet to set this tureen on can be a wreath woven...

I remember Anne.
September 22, 2005... The summer--another summer--was almost over.... A Tangled Web Many scholarly works have been written about that irascible red head girl who is so dear to our hearts. Some are tomes of wisdom that have taken years of research to...

A Country Lane.(Poem)
September 22, 2005... A Country Lane By L.M. Montgomery Published in Farm Journal ~ September 1901 Between the fences it winds its way Scarfed with its ribbon of goldenrod, Across the hills where the shadows play And past the sweets of the...

The sewing circle.
September 22, 2005... Dear Anne... I made you one of the new bookmarkers... They are awfully fashionable now and only three girls in school know how to make them. When you look at it remember... Your true friend, Diana Barry Anne of Green Gables ...

Slippers.
September 22, 2005... Gay would wear her dress of primrose silk and her new high heeled fairy slippers. ~ A Tangled Web Fill in the blanks with one of the following colours to describe the slippers found in LM Montgomery's books. Sandy blue silver...

Bideford Parsonage Museum opening.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... On Sunday afternoon, June 4, 2005, Tourism Minister Philip Brown met with Japanese writer Aoi Nozawa and Anne of Green Gables look-alike Andrea Hickey at the Bideford Parsonage Museum. Aoi Nozawa, who visits Prince Edward Island quite...

Road to Avonlea--the complete seasons on DVD.
September 22, 2005... Just in time for the Holidays. Enjoy watching the complete first five seasons of The Road to Avonlea on DVD. Each Season includes 13 episodes, with approximately 600 min. of viewing in a four CD pack with English and French viewing. Season...

A Little Soldier.(Lest we Forget)(Poem)
September 22, 2005... A Little Soldier by Lucy Maud Montgomery My blue eyed lad and bonny, Low bending o'er your book With face so flushed and eager And such an earnest look. Reading those splendid stories Of the brave days of old,...